The Indian Wells Valley Water District Board of Directors voted 5-0 Monday to send the remaining $2,500 to the Inyo-Mono Regional Water Management Group for funding-replenishment assessment.

The district had originally budgeted $10,000 for the IRWMG and had $2,500 remaining in that budget.

Director Leroy Corlett, who represents the district, said the group requested the funding to get it through the next couple of months before it gets any new grant funding from the state.

"The state Department of Water Resources receive grant requests from everybody all over the state," he said. "To make it easier for them, they divided the state into 13 regions called integrated water-management groups. We are in the Inyo-Mono regional group."

Board President Don Cortichiato said if the district chose not to participate in the group, it would not meet one of the requirements to receive state grants.